Michael Copps: New Media Shouldn't Pay for 'Old Media Sins'
Free Press, May 14, 2009
By Michael Copps
Two decades of mindless deregulation -- only briefly interrupted -- topped off by a veritable tsunami of consolidation across not just communications, but most business sectors, have succeeded in bringing our economy low and endangering the essential civic dialogue on which democracy depends. The sins visited upon old media must not be permitted to deny the promise of new media.
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